Privacy Policy

Advanced Publishing provides a digital magazine platform through
a service bureau model. At Advanced Publishing the privacy and security of
our customers, readers and visitors are of paramount importance. Advanced
Publishing is committed to protecting the data you share with us. This
privacy policy explains how Advanced Publishing processes information that can
be used to directly or indirectly identify an individual (“Personal Data”)
collected through use of its website and platform.

Information Collected Through the Advanced
Publishing Website

Advanced Publishing collects personal
information with an individual’s permission through their website for the
purposes of:

·Discussing
content solutions with prospects

·Sending
helpful information through blogs and drip email campaigns

·Getting
in touch with readers or clients about technical issues they may be having

With each form that is on the website,
the individual filling out the form is required to check an opt-in which
clearly lets the individual know what kind of contact they can expect to
receive. The individual is also informed that their contact information
will never be shared with a third party. Data collected through our website
will be held without time limit, but at the request of the individual their
information may be removed from our marketing database.

Cookies

Advanced Publishing uses cookies to
enhance the end user experience and comply with client requirements for
protection and enhancement of their content. Cookies and local storage are
required for certain functionality of Advanced Publishing’s products from a
technical perspective, such as:

·Remembering
a user so they aren’t required to authenticate every time they view protected
content hosted by Advanced Publishing.

·Session
information used to identify a single anonymized user between server calls
within a single session.

·Remembering
and re-applying settings and preferences that an anonymized user has set within
our products. This data is stored in the user’s browser local storage and is
not sent to Advanced Publishing or other servers.

Subscriber Authentication

Advanced Publishing provides an
authentication system that some of our clients choose to apply to their content
to restrict access to specific readers or subscribers. When authentication is
used, Advanced Publishing stores some information about individual users of the
clients’ content using a combination of databases and browser cookies. That
information can vary depending on the individual client’s implementation and
includes such items as:

·A list of
user accounts consisting of usernames, passwords, and details of what content
each user account has access to. This information is typically passed to
Advanced Publishing by the client, but can also come from an Advanced
Publishing hosted custom forms, described further in this document, or entered
directly by the client using a backend tool Advanced Publishing provides.

·Information
about how many times a particular user has logged in to access content.

·Cookies
used to track how many pages of content an individual anonymized user has
accessed while not logged in and using “Sharekey mode” in Advanced Publishing
products.

·Cookies
used to Identify when a user has previously authenticated so they can skip the
authentication process when returning.

Custom User Authentication

Some clients use a custom authentication
system to protect their Advanced Publishing hosted content. In these cases, the
client provides implementation instructions, and Advanced Publishing implements
the authentication logic on our servers. In most cases, this involves
collecting the username and password from a user via a form when they attempt
to access protected content, and passing that information through to the
client’s or a third party API to authenticate against the user’s account in
their system. Advanced Publishing does not store any information in these cases
beyond the life of the server call to authenticate.

Form Data

Clients of Advanced Publishing will
sometimes use forms within or in conjunction with our products. Some of these
forms are maintained and hosted by Advanced Publishing, while others are hosted
and maintained by the client themselves or third parties and embedded within
our products.

Advanced Publishing stores the data
input by users into the forms that are hosted by Advanced Publishing. No data
is held by Advanced Publishing for forms that are hosted by third parties and
embedded in Advanced Publishing products.

The actual data that Advanced Publishing
hosted forms collect varies for each client and is not used by Advanced
Publishing in any way other than to pass to the client upon request, or through
automated reports.

Who do we pass/share your personal data
with?

We may pass your
personal data to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and
other associated organizations for the purposes of completing tasks and
providing services to you that we have agreed to provide. When we use
third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that
is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that
requires them to keep your personal data secure and to keep it in accordance
with the requirements of Canadian and US data protection law and not to use it
for their own direct marketing purposes.

We may transfer
your personal information to a third party as otherwise permitted by Canadian
data protection law, for example to our legal advisors or in order to comply
with a legal requirement or obligation placed on us by law.

Other than as
referred to above, Advanced Publishing will never sell or share personal
information with third parties.

We require all
third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in
accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to
use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process
your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our
instructions.

Where is personal data stored?

Our
infrastructure and third-party providers are based outside the European
Economic Area (“EEA”) so all processing of your personal data if you are an EU
citizen will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

We ensure a
similar degree of protection is afforded to it by using service providers based
in the US, if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to
provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the
US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.

How long do we keep your personal data for?

We will only
retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we
collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal,
accounting, or reporting requirements.

What are your data protection rights as an
EU citizen?

As a “data
subject” under the data protection legislation you have a set of specific
rights. We are required to make you aware of the existence of these
rights. They are in outline:

the
right to request from us, if we are acting as the data controller, access
to your personal data;

the
right to request rectification of your personal data;

the
right to request erasure of your personal data;

the
right to request a restriction on the processing of your personal data;

Children's privacy

As a business-to-business email infrastructure company, Advanced
Publishing does not knowingly contact or collect personal information
from children under 13. Our site is not targeted toward children
under 13, nor is it designed to solicit information from children
under 13. If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally
collected such information through our website, please notify us at
the contact address below so that we may immediately delete the
information from our servers.

Analytics and Third Party User Tracking

Advanced Publishing uses its own
Analytics software to provide anonymized analytics on the usage of our
products. This data is used by Advanced Publishing internally to understand how
our products are used, and provided to clients for as it relates to their
content. The data passed to and provided by these services is anonymized and no
personal user information is used in the process or passed through to these
systems.

Some clients request that Advanced
Publishing add third-party tracking calls to their Advanced Publishing hosted
content. In these cases, the code to implement the additional calls are
provided by the client and are integrated as a customization to the client’s
content. Advanced Publishing does not store or have access to any of the data
or functionality that these third-party calls provide.

Your right to withdraw consent where
processing is based on consent

Where any part
of our processing of your personal data is based on your consent you may
withdraw your consent to that processing at any time.

Your Rights Regarding Your Data

Any person who would like to remove
their data removed from the databases we control simply needs to get in touch
with Advanced Publishing in order to have their information removed (erased) from
the databases. Individuals who would like to remove their data can
reach out to our Data Protection Officer through our Contact Form.

Advanced Publishing may change this
policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to
time to ensure you are happy with any changes.